371 Ill. App. 3d 21 - People v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2023
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young · 194 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Hall · 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe · 168 Ill. 2d 107 - People v. Arna · 152 Ill. 2d 133 - People v. Pasch
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y creating a Class X offense carrying 20 to 80 years, the legislature well might have believed it was authorizing trial judges to impose severe sentences. That is, the sentence already is enhanced, without the need for further provision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were valid when imposed and they remain valid. The trial judge had the power and authority to impose them without concern for the statutory enhancement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Lee
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.